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There are always good reasons to venture out of Anne Arundel County to catch a production at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia, but the theater's current offering, "The Addams Family," offers a few extra incentives — three local residents in key roles. Annapolis native David Bosley-Reynolds, whose many leading roles at Toby's include Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof," Daddy Warbucks in "Annie" and the king of Siam in "The King and I" takes on the role of Lurch, the family butler. Elizabeth Rayca of Hanover, in her fifth major role at Toby's, plays the "normal family" mother Alice Beinecke. And Andre Hinds...

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Benjamin Wade spent his dinner hour Tuesday lying on a bed of nails, smiling as a stream of people, including Baltimore's mayor and TV's Gomez Addams, stood on his stomach and posed for pictures.
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After a performance of "The Addams Family," the Broadway musical now playing at the Hippodrome Theatre, a tall, bald, mustachioed man went backstage to greet the cast — the original, the ultimate Gomez Addams, John Astin.
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